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[The Scout]

I'm making a creature that uses chitin as their skin but it isn't protecting them as it needs to. How do I improve the chitin's ability to reduce damage.

[Nihilist]

You can increase the strength of chitin by editing its base attributes in the material_template_default raw.

Try matching its [Impact_*] with bone, that may give you the results you want. I use

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[IMPACT_YIELD:100000]
[IMPACT_FRACTURE:100000]
[IMPACT_ELASTICITY:100]to give my chitin creatures a little more durability.
The default setting for this is

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[IMPACT_YIELD:10000]
[IMPACT_FRACTURE:10000]
[IMPACT_ELASTICITY:100]or about the strength of skin, with less elasticity
You can also create a creature specific version of chitin for it, but that's beyond my knowledge

[Shaostoul]

Warning: All creatures that have chitin using Nihilist's edit will be buffed as well.

You could make another chitin entry and edit that. That way your creature is the only one with the buffed chitin.

[Grimlocke]

You can also increase tissue thickness in the body detail plan. Its the number after each ARG1:

Also note that decreasing elasticity makes it very easy to break/shatter. Even layers made of steel seem to get shattered by pretty mundane attacks.

[Cruxador]

To modify the chitin of only a single creature, put it in the creature's raw.

Start by selecting the chitin. That's should be [SELECT_MATERIAL:CHITIN]
Then you can put the modifications others are suggesting after that, and it will apply only to the creature in question.